[Mailman-Developers] FR: obscure email address in archives

[Barry Warsaw]

On Nov 10, 2009, at 6:52 AM, Joost Schuttelaar wrote:

> When the obscure email address feature in the admin settings is  
> enabled, e-mail addresses are transformed into the format 'xxx AT  
> xxx' in the archives. This may have worked 5 years ago to prevent  
> spam harvesting. But it does not work anymore.
>
> I've patched (well... butchered) my own install by modifying  
> HyperArch.py to simply output 'EMAIL HIDDEN' instead of the obscured  
> e-mail address, by replacing the regexes to a constant string at  
> line 284.

Agreed.  I'm in the process right now of separating Pipermail (from  
the Mailman 3 branch) into its own project on Launchpad.  Hopefully  
this will enable and inspire folks to contribute changes to that  
project.

I plan to structure it as a typical distutils-style project so that  
it's very easy to integrate into Mailman, but separate enough that  
it's useful on its own.  You can follow the progress here:

https://launchpad.net/pipermail

-Barry

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